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A water-pot; particularly that in the sign of Aquarius. 
The fish oppose the maid, the wat’ry urn, 
With adverse fires sees raging Leo burn. Creech. 
The vessel in which the remains of burnt bodies were pub 
To URN, v. a. To enclose in an urn. 
From my hand Cornelia shall take 
And urn thy reliques. May. 
URNASCH, a large village and commune of Switzerland, 
in the canton of Appenzel. It contains 2600 inhabitants; 
5 miles south-west of Appenzel. 
URNEN, Upper and Lower, two villages of the south 
of Switzerland, in the canton of the Valais'. The latter is 
situated on the Linth, where it issues from the lake of Wal- 
lenstadt, has a harbour, and several mineral springs. The 
former is an insignificant place. 
URON, a river of South America, in the province of 
Darien, which runs south, and then turns east to enter the 
Pacific ocean. Its banks are inhabited by Indians. 
URO'SCOPY, s. [ovpov and a-Kei rr».] Inspection of urine. 
URPET1I, a township of England, in the county of Dur¬ 
ham ; 9^ miles north-by-west of Durham. 
URQUHART, a parish of Scotland, in the county of 
Elgin, about 9 miles long, and 6 broad, lying on the coast 
of the Murray frith, between the rivers Spey and Lossie. Po¬ 
pulation 936. 
URQUHART AND GLENMORISTON, a parish of 
Scotland, in Inverness-shire, about 30 miles long, and from 
8 to 12 broad. Population 2446. 
URQUHART AND LOGIE WESTER, a united parish 
of Scotland, partly in Ross-shire, and partly in the shire of 
Nairn, 9 or 10 miles long, and from 3 to 4 broad, lying 
along the head of the frith of Cromarty. Population 4174. 
URR, or Orr, a parish of Scotland, in the stewartry of 
Kirkcudbright, about 19 miles long and 6 broad, contain¬ 
ing about 12,000 acres. Population 2329. 
URR, or Orr, Loch, a small lake of Scotland, in Kirk¬ 
cudbrightshire, about 3 miles in circuit. 
URR, or Orr, a river of Scotland, in Kirkcudbrightshire, 
which issues from a lake of the same name, and, after a 
course of nearly 30 miles, falls into the Solway frith, at the 
small isle of Heston. 
URRAY, a parish of Scotland, composed of the united 
parishes of Urray and Kilchrist, lying for the most part in 
the county of Ross, though a small part is in Inverness-shire. 
It extends about 7 miles in length from the Beauly to the 
Conon, and its breadth varies from 3 to 6 miles. Popula¬ 
tion 2649. 
URRIN, a river of Ireland, in the county of Wexford, 
which runs into the Slaney, near Enniscorthy. 
URR1SBEG, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of 
Galway, near the sea coast; 38 miles west of Galway. 
URR1SHEAD, a cape of Ireland, on the north coast of 
the county of Mayo, at the entrance of Broad Haven. Lat. 
54. 19. N. long. 9. 48. W. 
U'RRY, s. A mineral.—In the coal-mines they dig a 
blue or black clay, that lies near the coal, commonly called 
urry, which is an unripe coal, and is very proper for hot 
lands, especially pasture ground. Mortimer. 
URSA, Cape, a promontory of Sicily, on the north coast. 
Lat. 38. 18. N. long. 13. 11. E. 
URSANA, a town of Hiudostan, province of Agra, 
district of Alvar. Lat. 27. 22. N. long. 76.25. E. 
URSANE, St., a petty town of the north-west of Swit¬ 
zerland, in the canton of Berne, in the Salzgow. Population 
700; 27 miles west-south-west of Bale. 
URSEL, a small inland town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of East Flanders. Population 2100. 
URSEL, Upper, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in the duchy of Nassau; 18 miles north-north-east of Mentz. 
Population 800. Near it stands the town of Lower Urscl. 
URSEREN, a vhlley in the central part of Switzerland, in 
the canton of Uri. It is about 8 miles long, and scarcely 2 
broad, surrounded on all sides by lofty mountains, and 
watered by the Reuss. No part of the valley is less than 
4500 feet above the level of the sea. It contains four 
villages. 
URSETSCH, a small town of Russian Lithuania, in the 
government of Minsk, Population 1400. 
URS1NS (Jean-Jouvenal des), a prelate and historian of 
the 15th century, was advanced to several posts, civil and 
ecclesiastical, and in 1449 became archbishop of Rheims, 
under which character he consecrated Lewis XI. In conse¬ 
quence of his revision, in concert with other prelates, of the 
sentence pronounced against the maid of Orleans, it was 
revoked. His learning and episcopal virtues established a 
respectable character; and he closed his life at the age of 85, 
in the year 1473. His “ History of the Reign of Charles VI., 
from 1380 to 1422,” is said to be written w'ith correctness 
and integrity. It was first published by Theodore Godefroi, 
in 1614, 4to.; and an improved edition by his son appeared 
in 1653, fol. Moreri. 
URSINUS (Benjamin), originally Behr, a German ma¬ 
thematician, was born at Sproltaw, in Silesia, in 1587; and 
resided for a long time as tutor to two young noblemen, 
along with Kepler, whom he assisted in the construction of 
the Rudolphine tables, first at Prague, and then at Lintz, in 
Bohemia. In the latter place, he was teacher of mathema¬ 
tics; and from thence he removed to Frankfort on the Oder, 
to undertake a similar charge; and here he died in 1633. 
In 1628, or 1629, he published, at Cologne, his “ Cursus 
Mathematicus,” containing Napier’s logarithms, and some 
additional tables of proportional parts; and in 1624, he 
printed, at the same place, his “ Trigonometria,” with a 
table of natural sines and their logarithms, in Napier’s form, 
to every fen seconds in the quadrant, the computation of 
which was a work of great labour. Haller. 
URSPERG, or Auersperg, a small town of Germany, 
in Bavaria, on the Mindel, with 800 inhabitants; 20 miles 
west-south-west of Augsburg. 
U'RSULINE, adj. Denoting an order of nuns. Mason. 
URSUL1NES, an order of nuns, who observe the rule of 
St. Augustine; and are chiefly noted for taking on them the 
education and instruction of young maids. 
URSUS, Bear, a genus of the class of mammalia and 
order of ferae, the characters of which are, that the front 
teeth are six both above and below, excavated within alter¬ 
nately; the two lateral ones of the lower jaw longer than the 
rest and lobated, with smaller or secondary teeth at their in¬ 
ternal bases; the canine teeth are solitary; the grinders are 
five or six on each side, the first approximated to the canine 
teeth; the tongue is smooth; the snout prominent; eyes fur¬ 
nished with a nictitating membrane. Gmelin enumerates 
eight species, besides several varieties: viz.— 
1. Ursus arctos, or blackish-brown bear, with abrupt tail. 
—This is the ursus of Gesner, Aldrovandus, Ray, &c., the 
ours of Buffon, and brown bear of Pennant. The varieties 
mentioned by Gmelin are the black bear with a smaller black 
body, the brown bear with a brown and ferruginous body, 
the white bear with black body and white hairs intermixed, 
and the variegated bear with a body of various colours.— 
The common bear, with some variations as to size and co¬ 
lour, is a native of almost all the northern parts of Europe 
and Asia, and is said to be found in some of the Indian 
islands, as Ceylon, &c.; and the brown bear is also found in 
some of the northern parts of America, where it destroys 
cattle; but this is a different species from the American 
black bear, which is not carnivorous. The common bear 
inhabits woods and unfrequented places, and feeds chiefly on 
roots, fruits, and other vegetables, occasionally preying on 
animals. In the Alpine regions, the bear is brown; in some 
other parts of Europe, black; and in some parts of Norway 
of a grey colour, and even perfectly white. The brown, the 
black, the grey, and the white land bears, are all of the same 
species: though it is observed,- that the brown and the black 
varieties differ in their mode of life; the black confining 
itself almost wholly to vegetable food ; whereas the brown 
bear frequently attacks and preys upon other animals, and 
destroys lambs, kids, and even sometimes cattle, sucking the 
blood like the cat and weasel tribes. Linnaeus adds, that the 
bear 
